Cash boost for Burgess Hill cinema
Published Date:
08 August 2008
FILM fans at one of the oldest surviving independent cinemas in Britain should soon have better ticket facilities after an £8,000 grant.
The Orion in Cyprus Road, Burgess Hill, started life as a short-lived wood and brick but extremely smart cinema at the start of the 1920s on the site of a brick and tile dump and was then called The Scala.
The building that stands today opened in 1928 after builders used 225,000 local bricks in its construction, and its first film was Charlie Chaplin's The Circus.
The grant from the UK Film Council through the National Lottery will be spent on improving the computerised booking office ticketing system.
The Orion is one of five cinemas in Southern England to share a £25,000 handout and received the largest amount in the region. Across the country 56 cinemas shared £475,000 from the film council's capital and access fund for local independent cinemas.
Full story in the Mid Sussex Times
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08 August 2008 2:52 PM
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